New generated Maven PlayN project displays errors on android screen

Question

after hours and hours of search to get it running I'm stuck now. So what happened? I tried to dive into the PlayN framework to code my first game on android. With a little struggle I generated my first project with maven (because apparently some versions aren't available in the maven repo) so I used the newest version of the playn-archetype:

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=com.googlecode.playn -DarchetypeArtifactId=playn-archetype -DarchetypeVersion=1.7.1

which generated my project neatly. Then I changed the Android SDK to 17 instead of the generated 11 and run the project. But instead of the background image which is in the assets project of PlayN I only get a black screen with a little box in the corner of my Phone which contains ERROR ERROR. Neither LogCat or any other Logging feature in IntelliJ-IDEA showed any exception or error so far. here is a picture of the screen

Has anyone encountered and fixed this problem? Thank you for your help!

Stuff I'm using:

• Android SDK 17
• Java Development Kit 7 update 25
• IntelliJ IDEA 12

Answer 1

So I found a solution for this with the help of the guys on googlecode.

first of I needed to set the Variables to the different things I use: (to complete the picture I will write all my variables I added)

set %JAVA_HOME% to your Java folder (should be JDK 1.6) add to Path %JAVA_HOME%\bin

set %ANDROID_HOME% to your Android SDK folder add to Path %ANDROID_HOME%\tools and %ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools

set %M2_HOME% to your Maven folder add to Path %M2_HOME%\bin

let maven generate your project with the playn-archetype

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=com.googlecode.playn -DarchetypeArtifactId=playn-archetype -DarchetypeVersion=1.7.1

then add to the top-level pom (MyGame\pom.xml) the following code (text in double star is the things you must add)

<properties>
   <playn.version>1.7.1</playn.version>
   **<android.maven.version>3.6.0</android.maven.version>**
</properties>

and

<modules>
   <module>assets</module>
   <module>core</module>
   **<module>android</module>**
</modules>

now you can run the project with

mvn install -pl android -am

and run it on your phone with

mvn -f android\pom.xml android:run

This should do the trick and if your phone is connected to the computer the android project with the background image should be visible on the display.